Crytek: next-gen consoles "impossible" to match PCs

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Crytek head says next-gen consoles 'impossible' to match PCs

As gamers prepare for their likely first glimpse of the next generation tomorrow, at least one executive is tempering expectations. Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli says it is "impossible" for the next-generation consoles to match high-end gaming PCs.

"Without breaking NDAs that are in place, realistically, from purely a price point perspective, it is impossible," Yerli told Eurogamer. "It's impossible to package $2000-3000 into a mainstream, let's say $500 console. I'm not saying they are $500 consoles. They may launch a console at $2000, but the consumer pricing is usually much lower than that." He further stated that Moore's Law dictates that hardware evolutions mean consoles launching in 2013, 2014, or even 2015 "will never beat a PC again."

The other issue at play is the PC culture, which Yerli says has grown more advanced and devoted to powerful gaming rigs. "If you look at PC gaming, that has changed also. The whole modular way you can design a PC today, with two, three or four graphics cards in them, and you can water cool them and overclock to infinity, that didn't exist even six or seven years ago. You just bought one or maybe two graphics cards and then you were super enthusiastic. It's very difficult to compete with that. People have these massive nuclear power plants standing in their rooms that will run your games really fast. It's hard to compete with."

If Yerli is right, Sony's presentation tomorrow may underwhelm some PC gamers who already own machines that outpace the future console.

I don't expect the next gen consoles to have the power or the latest and fastest rigs of today, it would be stupid to assume that, but I do know a lot more optimizations and TLC get put into consoles games like Uncharted, etc.

Oh wow...NO $#@!ING WAY! PS4 will be more powerful than PCs...that's just how it is...

$#@!ing no $#@! sherlock

As obvious as that may seem, there were a whole ton of PS3 fanboys that were absolutely convinced that the PS3 would not only surpass the best of gaming PCs, but would be a supercomputer. They screamed at the top of their lungs TWO TERAFLOPS OF POWER, and CELL IS MORE ADVANCED THAN A PC CPU!!!

So as obvious as it is to you or me, there are a large number of people who do need to be reminded that a console is nothing more than a stripped down budget gaming system.

As obvious as that may seem, there were a whole ton of PS3 fanboys that were absolutely convinced that the PS3 would not only surpass the best of gaming PCs, but would be a supercomputer. They screamed at the top of their lungs TWO TERAFLOPS OF POWER, and CELL IS MORE ADVANCED THAN A PC CPU!!!

So as obvious as it is to you or me, there are a large number of people who do need to be reminded that a console is nothing more than a stripped down budget gaming system.

That's a bit disingenuous, they are obviously more than just a stripped down gaming system. Just in a different way

As obvious as that may seem, there were a whole ton of PS3 fanboys that were absolutely convinced that the PS3 would not only surpass the best of gaming PCs, but would be a supercomputer. They screamed at the top of their lungs TWO TERAFLOPS OF POWER, and CELL IS MORE ADVANCED THAN A PC CPU!!!

So as obvious as it is to you or me, there are a large number of people who do need to be reminded that a console is nothing more than a stripped down budget gaming system.

I don't see it as a stripped down budget gaming system, I see it as an highly optimized reasonably priced gaming system!

A closed platform is insuperior to an open platform in terms of specs. No $#@!. So what?

I just want to play good games, PC, PS3, whatever. This $#@! Crytec always goes on about is stupid and tiresome.

Not to mention there are barely ANY games that take advantage of my PC fully, and never will we see heaps of games that are until consoles are on par. Why? Because people who make games make them for more systems than just PC so it sells.

And its like they are constantly dismissing console owners and calling them stupid for not owning a PC.

Even though the entire Crysis series in on PC PS3 X360...

Consoles serve a very different purpose... so anything they have to say is quite irrelevant. And yes... apparently the console gamers do matter to them for sales otherwise they wouldn't port their game to consoles. They're incredibly condescending.

CONSOLES THAT ARE UPDATED EVERY 5 TO 8 YEARS COULD NEVER MATCH PCS THAT ARE UPDATED EVERY 5 MINUTES!

No sh^t. Groundbreaking and totally worthy of making an article about it.

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